Combination clapper and rattler



J. ZAGORODNY June 1 1926.

COMBINATION CLAPFEIRv AND RATTLER Filed Oct. 22 1925 Patented June 1,192%.

UNITED STATES re ain earner @WWE.

JOHN ZAGORODNY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINATION CLAPPER AND RAT'ILER.

Application filed October 22,v 1925, Serial 1V0. 64,182.

vision of a clapper or rattler adapted to,

produce a rapid and sharp noise in short succession at each movement ofthe hammer in either direction.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a rattler combinedwith the hammer of the clapper to produce a rattling sound during theoperation of the clapper in order to increase the noise made.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a noiseproducing instrument of this type the clapper of which consists of twohemispherical members in which balls are loosely arranged to produce thesound, and which are adapted to be quickly and conveniently removed andattached to the instrument proper.

These and other objects and advantagesof the invention will become morefully known as the description thereof proceeds, and will then bespecifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a combination rattler and clapperconstructed according to the present invention, partly in section.

Fig. 2 is an end View of the same, partly in section.

The instrument constructed according to the present invention comprisesa base board of resonant wood or other suitable material which may becalled the soundboard and which in the drawing is designated 10,equipped with a handle 11 adapted to be conveniently gripped and held. Aframe composed of two homogeneous elements or members 12 and 13 issecured with its foot flanges 14 and 15 respectively to the board 10 bymeans of suitable fastening means such as for instance the screws 16.The upper ends of the members 12 and 13 are bent to form shoulders andparallel, spaced sections or cars 17 and 18 between which the straight,parallel lower ends of a pair of parallel members 19 and 20 arepivotally attached by means of a centrally located pin 21 having outerheads 22, 23. The members 19 and 20 above the ears'17 and 18 are shapedto form a loop 24, and are then formed into two parallel straight parts25, 26 and their extreme outer ends are laterally rectangularly bent asat 27 28 and then rectangularly vertically bent, as at 29, 30 to formcheeks between which the hammer or clapper 31 is held in place by meansof screws 32, 33 or other suit able fastening means entering the sidesof the hammer in approximately the center part thereof. The ends of thehammer 31 are tapered or beveled as at 34 to produce the sound producingfaces 35.

A vibration strengthening spring or the like 36 having rectangularlybent ends 37 shorter than the hammer 31, are secured to the lower faceof the hammer by means of screws 38 or the like, and their lateralmiddle sections are formed into loops 39 through which the parts 25, 26are guided.

A transverse pin 40 is guided through members 12, 13 intermediate theirends and has outer threaded ends 41, 42 adapted to be screwed intothreaded sockets 43, 44 centrally located on the inner faces or Walls oftwo hemispherically shaped bell bodies 45, 46, while fastening nuts 47,48 on the pin 40 engage the outer faces of members 12, 13.

Balls 49 and 50 are loosely guided within the two hemispherical bellbodies and adapted to freely move therein during the operation of theinstrument.

The operation of the novel instrument will be entirely clear from theabove description. If the handle is gripped by the hand of the operatorbelow the sound board, and the instrument received an endwise movementup and down, the hammer will swing about its pivot pin 21 andalternately engage with its faces 35 the sound board to producesuccessive clapping sounds, while the balls within the hemisphericalbell bodies will produce a rattling sound.

It will be understood that such changes may be made in the generalarrangement and in the construction of the minor details of my novelinstrument as shown and described as an example, as come within thescope of the appended claim without departure from the spirit of theinvention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and'desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A combination clapper and rattler comprising a sound board of elongatedshape, a handle for said board, secured at the lower face thereof, apair of members having foot fo securing said members to the upper faceof said board to form a frame thereon, ears formed at the upper end ofsaid f 111138, a transverse pin in said members having threaded out-erends, a pair of hemispherically shaped bell-bodies, threaded sockets onthe inner faces of said bodies adapted to engage the threaded ends ofsaid pin, means for holding the bell parts in relative positions, ballsloosely held in said bell bodies, a hammer having the lower end of itsshaft pivotally attached to said members adapted to swing about the samein endwise direction, a pair of sound faces at the ends of said hammeradapted to engage said board during the endwise up and down displacement of said board, and a vibratory strengthening means attached tothe lower face of said hammer.

Signed at Hartford in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut,this 17th day of October A. D. 1925.

JOHN ZAGORODNY.

